5, Wharf Street

1. WHARF STREET 5127 No 5 (Formerly listed as offices of Messrs Louch Belcher and Co) SU 4767 SW 6/227 29.9.50

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1. Early-mid C18 town house, style of James Clarke of Newbury (master builder). Three storeys. Five windows. Red brick with dentil eaves cornice. Parapet with pilasters on quoins and central round-arched recess. Plain plinth and floor bands. Early C19 wooden doorcase with reeded pilasters and short sections of frieze carrying projecting cornice; panelled door approached by steps. Good interior with panelled entrance hall with fluted pilasters, and staircase with carved brackets, moulded handrail and turned balusters. Old panelling in upper rooms. In the late C18 wing at the rear the 1st floor room has a good Corinthian Venetian window, 2 Adam- style doorways and a moulded plaster frieze. (Newbury Buildings Past and Present 50-51).

Listing NGR: SU4720867140